Completed projects in Braintree: real photos, real prices, one local crew.
Siding for a Braintree house has to stand up to coastal weather, older framing and the town's permit process. We work on the colonials, capes and ranches you see throughout town, and here is how a siding project goes from the first measurement to the final walk-through.
$48,500
median written estimate, 2022–2026
$36,500middle half of jobs$58,000
Typical measured house: 29 squares of wall
$17,000
median written estimate, 2025–2026
$13,500middle half of jobs$22,000
Typical measured roof: 21 squares
$20,000
median written estimate, 2024–2026
$6,000middle half of jobs$35,500
Typical job: 8 windows
$5,000
median written estimate, 2024–2026
$4,000middle half of jobs$9,000
Medians of the written estimates we prepared for measured Massachusetts homes, signed and unsigned, rounded to $500. For today's price on a specific product, use the cost calculators.
Braintree has a mix of capes, colonials, ranches and split-levels built from the 1950s through the 1990s, many with original wood clapboards or older vinyl. Braintree sits a few miles from Quincy Bay, so houses here catch more wind-driven rain and salt spray than inland towns. Wood siding and trim on the weather-facing sides tend to show rot, peeling paint and swollen boards first. Older vinyl often fades unevenly or cracks at the corners after years of coastal freeze-thaw cycles.
On a Braintree house we most often replace siding with CertainTeed vinyl lap siding or insulated vinyl, which handles the damp, windy conditions without the annual painting wood requires. For two-family homes and larger colonials where you want a deeper shadow line and better impact resistance, CertainTeed Cedar Impressions polymer shakes give the look of cedar shingles without the maintenance. On a coastal lot, the housewrap and flashing details behind the siding matter as much as the siding itself.
Your project manager measures your house at a free in-home visit and gives you a written proposal that lists the exact products, colors and scope. We take out the building permit in Braintree and schedule the work around inspections.
Material choice matters more in a coastal town like Braintree than it does inland. Fiber cement and thick vinyl hold up better against wind-driven rain and the freeze-thaw cycles that punish siding from November through March. Check the exposure of each wall: a south-facing gable end takes full sun and weather year-round, while a sheltered side under a deep soffit needs less from the product. The installer should walk the house with you and point out where different trim details, flashing and water-shedding laps will do the real work.
Color and trim affect how the house looks from the street and how much maintenance you take on. Darker siding fades more noticeably over time in full sun. Lighter shades and pre-finished factory colors stay closer to the original swatch. Trim material matters as much as the siding itself. PVC trim boards and corners resist rot in the damp spring months better than wood, and they never need paint. Check that the proposal lists the exact trim product, not just the siding brand.
Our Braintree siding projects have used CertainTeed products, often with GAF roofing and Harvey windows on the same houses. Homeowners have picked Sterling Gray and Coastal Blue, two colors that suit the coastal weather here.
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It does: the building department issues a permit for siding work, and we file it as part of the job. We handle the building permit as part of the project, and a town inspector checks the work at the rough stage and again at completion so everything meets the Massachusetts building code.
Vinyl siding, particularly CertainTeed products we install, resists salt air and wind-driven rain without rusting or swelling. Fiber cement is another good choice for coastal exposure. We also use PVC trim boards that will not rot, which matters on Braintree houses that catch nor'easters.
The timeline depends on the size of the house, the material and the season. A typical single-family home takes a few weeks from the day the crew starts removing the old siding. We schedule the work around the permit and the material order so the house is not left exposed.
We replace the corner boards, fascia and window trim with AZEK PVC trim as a standard part of the job. We also install new aluminum flashing at the roofline and around windows and doors. Reusing old trim almost always leads to leaks and callbacks, so we start fresh.
We bring color samples to the in-home visit and can show you full-size panels in the daylight on your own walls. You also see the colors we have installed on other Braintree houses, such as Sterling Gray and Coastal Blue, so you can judge how a shade reads on a New England streetscape.
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